Art Quotes · Page 531

A narrative voice with conviction is often hard to find. But not in baseball. The minors teach two lost American arts: how…

— Thomas Boswell

Ive lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once created, or produced, the art of fiction.

— Rick Bass

I've worked with jazz artists, country artists, classical artists, pop artists. I never wanted there to be categories, because when I was…

— Brian McKnight

In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.

— Charles B. Rangel

The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.

— Walter Darby Bannard

Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives…

— Denis Waitley

I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

— Saul Bellow

One day, in the San Francisco walk, he came upon some badly painted figures and observed that good painters imitate nature but…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“You're going to be a famous artist." His voice is deep velvet - soothing and sure. "You'll live in one of those…

— A.G. Howard

I gather that a lot of the "pots" in the great museum in Baghdad, which we allowed to be looted and then…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.…

— Fran Lebowitz

“The most frequently cited artists and curators travel extensively and there is a real difference in saying whether concepts and other contributions…

— Charlotte Bydler

Since the time of the ancient Greeks a democracy has depended on its philosophers and creative artists. It can only flourish by…

— Uta Hagen

Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

When I was in '97, I didn't know I was in a very major moment. But with the privilege of reflection, I…

— Mara Brock Akil

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of…

— Toni Morrison

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

— Laura Riding

“One never discusses art save with people who are already in agreement, and then it is a matter of nuances.”

— Auguste Preault

Art for me...is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside of all the rules and all the demands of…

— Emile Zola

Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back…

— Ray Bradbury

Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.

— Mike Patton

“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN”

— Frank I. Luntz

We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money.

— Charles Dickens

For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life.

— Lizette Woodworth Reese

The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

— Hilda Doolittle

[Shanghai Biennale] has been my attitude for as long as I've been practicing art and other cultural-related activities.

— Ai Weiwei

The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

— Brassai

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

— Mark Mothersbaugh

There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get…

— Tracey Emin

Every human is an artist. And this is the main art that we have: the creation of our story.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.

— Tom Bissell

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

— Art Spiegelman

The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big…

— Lenny Kravitz

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

— Anonymous

Because we are interested in promoting wellness, we will integrate medicine with performing arts, arts and crafts, agriculture, recreation, nature, and social…

— Patch Adams

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

I just feel like everyone and their mother thinks they can be an artist. You can't. Sorry. I know I was born…

— Paz de la Huerta

Can we expect the redemption of the world from scholars? I doubt it. But the time has come for all artists to…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.

— J Balvin